2 nd S. IX. June 16. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Sir John Bowring (2 nd S. ix. 365.) — Not 

 grudging the Second Charles's gratitude toward 

 any of his unfortunate father's friends, I may ob- 

 serve the salient contrast of his neglect toward 

 others among them. Like Sir John Bowring, 

 Thomas Swift of Goodrich, in Herefordshire, sold 

 a large portion of his ancient patrimony, and laid 

 the produce at his sovereign's feet : persecutions, 

 sequestrations, and compoundings, consumed so 

 much of its residue, that little remained for him — 

 " To shew the world he was a gentleman." 



His recompense was, not what his services had 

 merited, and his blood and birth would have jus- 

 tified — the coronet or the bloody hand conferred 

 on luckier though not more loyal adherents — but 

 a bow and a smile from his gracious sovereign. 

 " Never mind Mr. Swift," said Charles ; " he is 

 my friend upon principle — I have enough to do 

 with conciliating my enemies." A " merry mo- 

 narch" was this Charles; and, after the only 

 fashion of the world which never changes, a 

 " wise " one too ; but the almost destruction of 

 their ancient estate has wrought no occasion of 

 " merriment" to the sixth generation of Thomas 

 Swift's descendants, Quorum Pars. 



Will Inquirer oblige the undersigned with a 

 description of the token referred to as issued by 

 " John Bowring of Chumleigh." It is not men- 

 tioned by Boyne in his Catalogue of Devonshire 

 Tokens, and the writer would be glad to insert a 

 correct description in his lists of additions. An 

 impression of the token in wax or gutta-percha 

 (both sides) would also be esteemed a favour by 



John S. Smallfield. 



10. Little Queen Street, 



Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C. 



Witty Classical Quotations (2 nd S. ix. 116. 

 246. 332. 413.) — Writing to Mason, with refer- 

 ence to the general election of 1774, Horace Wal- 

 pole says : — 



" Bob [Robert Macreth, afterwards knighted], formerly 

 a waiter at White's, was set up by my nephew for two 

 boroughs, and actually is returned for Castle Rising with 

 Mr. Wedderburn, 



' Servus curru portatur eodem.' " 



Letters (ed. by Cunningham) vi. 119. 



A writer in the Universal Review, noticing the 

 Diaries and Correspondence of G. Rose, quotes 

 Moore's rendering of Horace : — 



" Mitte Sectari TJosa quo locorum 

 Sera moretur." 

 "Don't stop to inquire while dinner is staying 

 At which of his places old Rose is delaying." 



R. F. Sketchley. 



"The Ancient" (2 nd S. iii. 388., ix. 412.) — 

 Aristophanes : — 



" Ov yap aV n6rt 

 Tptifrtiv JuYair' av fti'a \6\fj.r) K\inra &vo." 



Vespa, v. 927. 



H. B. C. 



Knap (2 nd S. ix. 346.) — Knapping is the tech- 

 nical term for breaking small stones (or stones 

 small), e.g. the so-called metal for a Macadamised 

 road, and a knapping -hammer is the tool to do it 

 with. Cnap in Gaelic is (Armstrong says) a 

 button [German knopp~\, a knob, a knot, a lump, 

 a boss, a stud, a little blow, a little hill, a stout 

 boy [German knabe~\. Two districts of Argyll- 

 shire are called North and South Knapdale. Both 

 of these are knobby enough ; but I have heard it 

 said in reference to them, that Knap meant rub- 

 bish, and that they were so called because all the 

 rubbish that remained after the creation of the 

 world was shot in that western locality ! J. P. O. 



Tvburn Gallows (2 nd S. ix. 400.) — Some aid 

 towards identifying the site of " Tyburn Tree " 

 may, I think, be obtained from Hogarth's print of 

 the execution of Tom Idle. The wall on which 

 some of the spectators are perched — no doubt 

 that of Hyde Park — is much nearer the gallows 

 than it could have been supposing the latter to 

 have stood on the ground now occupied by a house 

 in Connaught Square. The distance would be 

 correct if the gallows stood in the position of Con- 

 naught Place. It is fair to assume that Hogarth 

 took some slight sketch on the spot. Jatdee. 



To Slang (2 nd S. iii. 445.) —Mr. Henry T. 

 Riley supposes this term to descend from the 

 time when the vituperative Dutch General Slan- 

 genberg ruled over part of the English forces. 

 In corroboration of his conjecture I may add that 

 the sailors of our Royal Navy still use to design a 

 soldier under the name slang — " het is een slang," 

 meaning " it is a redcoat," whilst the substantive 

 itself may very well have been employed as a nom 

 de guerre for the Dutch General I have just 

 mentioned, and afterwards applied to all soldiers 

 indiscriminately. J. H. van Lennef. 



Zeyst, near Utrecht. 



Money Value, 1704 (2 nd S. ix. 426.) — Take 

 the price of wheat in 1704, as given by Bishop 

 Fleetwood in his Chronicon Preciosum, at 46s. 6d. 

 the quarter, and a quarter of wheat in 1860 at 

 60s. : then 501. in the year 1704 would purchase 

 21-2% quarters, and in 1860 only 16 T K <j quarters; 

 or in money in 1704 501., in 1860 38/. 15s. 



W. D. H. 



Bavins and Puffs (2 nd S. ix. 25. 110. 333. 436.) 

 — I am not acquainted with this last term, but 

 the cry of bavins! bavins! slightly corrupted by 

 the vendors of small faggots, is familiar to the 

 frequenters of the Isle of Thanet. 



M. A. Phillott. 



Judas Tree (2 nd S. ix. 433.) — This is said to 

 have flourished near the Holy City. Tradition 

 points to it as the fatal tree from which the traitor 

 " by transgression fell," after committing the last 

 desperate act of suicide. F. Phillott. 



